Melville Weston Fuller papers, 1794-1949 (bulk 1849-1910).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 5,000 items; 16 containers plus 1 oversize; 6.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Alverstone, Richard Everard Webster, Viscount, 1842-1915 -- Correspondence
- Bond, Hugh L. (Hugh Lennox), 1828-1893 -- Correspondence
- Brawley, William H., 1841-1916 -- Correspondence
- Brewer, David J. (David Josiah), 1837-1910 -- Correspondence
- Butler, Charles Henry, 1859-1940 -- Correspondence
- Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917 -- Correspondence
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 -- Correspondence
- Davis, J. C. Bancroft (John Chandler Bancroft), 1822-1907 -- Correspondence
- Day, William R. (William Rufus), 1849-1923 -- Correspondence
- Doane, John W. -- Correspondence
- Fuller, Henry Weld, 1810-1889 -- Correspondence
- Fuller, Mary Ellen Coolbaugh, 1837-1904 -- Correspondence
- Garland, A. H. (Augustus Hill), 1832-1899 -- Correspondence
- Gregory, Stephen Strong, 1849-1920 -- Correspondence
- Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895 -- Correspondence
- Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 -- Correspondence
- Hay, John, 1838-1905 -- Correspondence
- Herschell, Farrer Herschell, Baron, 1837-1899 -- Correspondence
- Hoyt, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1830-1892 -- Correspondence
- Knox, Philander C. (Philander Chase), 1853-1921 -- Correspondence
- Lammasch, Heinrich, 1853-1920 -- Correspondence
- Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1851-1905 -- Correspondence
- Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 -- Correspondence
- Martens, Fedor Fedorovich, 1845-1909 -- Correspondence
- McKinley, William, 1843-1901 -- Correspondence
- Moody, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1917 -- Correspondence
- Morris, Henry C. (Henry Crittenden), 1868- -- Correspondence
- Morris, John -- Correspondence
- Olney, Richard, 1835-1917 -- Correspondence
- Pauncefote, Julian, Baron, 1828-1902 -- Correspondence
- Phelps, Erskine Mason, 1839-1910 -- Correspondence
- Putnam, William L. (William Le Baron), 1835-1918 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 -- Correspondence
- Shepard, Henry M. -- Correspondence
- Simonton, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1904 -- Correspondence
- Smith, Joseph Emerson, 1835-1881 -- Correspondence
- Springer, William M. -- Correspondence
- Stone, Henry, 1830-1896 -- Correspondence
- Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926 -- Correspondence
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 -- Correspondence
- Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 -- Correspondence
- Wadleigh, Catherine Weston Fuller -- Correspondence
- Wallace, Hugh Campbell, 1863-1931 -- Correspondence
- Wheeler, William A. (William Adolphus), 1833-1874 -- Correspondence
- Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1858-1936 -- Correspondence
- Coolbaugh family -- Correspondence
- Fuller family -- Correspondence
- Weston family -- Correspondence
- United States. Supreme Court
- Bowdoin College -- Students
- Democratic Party (Ill.)
- Permanent Court of Arbitration
- Constitutional law -- United States
- Law -- United States
- Real estate investment -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Practice of law -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Shipping -- Oman -- Muscat
- Universities and colleges -- Maine -- Brunswick
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government
- Illinois -- Politics and government
- Maine -- Social life and customs
- Venezuela -- Boundaries
- Jurists
- Lawyers
Open to research.
Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, scrapbooks, printed matter, and memorabilia relating to Fuller's term on the Supreme Court; his law practice, real estate holdings, and Democratic politics in Chicago, Ill.; his work as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration especially in relation to the matter of the Muscat dhows and the Venezuelan boundary dispute; Fuller's personal and family affairs; and his childhood in Maine and student life at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Family correspondents include Henry Weld Fuller, Mary Ellen Coolbaugh Fuller, Joseph Emerson Smith, Catherine Weston Fuller Wadleigh, Nathan Weston, Paulina B. Weston, and other members of the Fuller, Weston, and Coolbaugh families.
Other correspondents include Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone; Hugh L. Bond; William H. Brawley; David J. Brewer; Charles Henry Butler; Joseph Hodges Choate; Grover Cleveland; J.C. Bancroft Davis; William R. Day; John W. Doane; A.H. Garland; Stephen Strong Gregory; Walter Quintin Gresham; Benjamin Harrison; John Hay; Farrer Herschell, Baron Herschell; Henry M. Hoyt; Philander C. Knox; Heinrich Lammasch; Daniel Scott Lamont; Robert Todd Lincoln; Fedor Fedorovich Martens; William McKinley; William H. Moody; Henry C. Morris; John Morris; Richard Olney; Baron Julian Pauncefote; Erskine Mason Phelps; William L. Putnam; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root; Henry M. Shepard; Charles H. Simonton; William M. Springer; Henry Stone; Oscar S. Straus; William H. Taft; Lambert Tree; Hugh Campbell Wallace; William A. Wheeler; and George W. Wickersham.
Photographs, drawings, and prints transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Lawyer and jurist; chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Collection material in English.
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